Dec 08, 2015 - Sale 2401

Sale 2401 - Lot 270

Price Realized: $ 6,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
VIELE'S WATER MAP (NEW YORK CITY.) Vielé, Egbert. Topographical Map of the City of New York Showing Original Water Courses and Made Land. Hand-colored lithographed map on two joined sheets, mounted in original folding booklet (covers split), with 13 pages of text. 480x1550 mm; one tear into image from bottom edge. New York, 1865

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"The most enduring nineteenth-century map of Manhattan is Egbert Ludovicus Viele's Water Map, which was first published in 1859 and is still in use today." -- Augustyn & Cohen, Manhattan in Maps, page 136.